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Getting Ahead

Getting Ahead is a 48 hour course that encourages participants to build resources and create a plan that will help them to begin to make changes that will lead to a stable and secure future.

Through activities and group discussions, participants explore the causes of poverty; community and individual resources; and strategies for goal setting and planning. Participants, called investigators, are paid a small stipend for their investigative work that leads to greater community insight on the issue of poverty. By the end of the course, each investigator has an achievable goal and concrete steps to make that goal a reality.

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